Improvement in gates



NTTED SIATES PATENT OFFICE.

sYLvEsTER C.. FARNHAM, 0F EAsT HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

|MPRovE'Mi-2NT IN GTES.

Specification forniing part of Letters Patent No. 40,557, dated llovet'nbel10,1863.4

To aZZ whom it may concern: Be it known that I, SYLVESTER G. FAEN- HAM, of East Hartford, county of Hartford,

vvand State of Connecticut, havcin'vented a certain new andA useful vImprovement in Gates; and I do hereby declare that the same is described and represented in the following speci'- lThe naturevof this improvement in gates j will be understood from the specication'and drawings. 4

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a portion of the fence and the posts on either side of the gateway. lFig. 2 isa side V'elevation of the gate and shows at one view its mode of-` construction. Fig. 3 is'an end view and shows the manner in which the. gate is held and4 moves back and forth between rolls.

care posts made and set in the common way each side ofthe gateway. 'V Y -b b are the' top and bottom rails of the fence.

c are the pickets, secured to the rails in the ordinary way.

- d arel friction-'rolls .having their edges groove'd to receive the flange-edge of the rail.

. d! isy aroll arranged just over the o therso as to allow the rail- T tov move freely in the grooves of the under roll, d, and theupperrolhy 'd'.l I also propose sometimes to. arrange lanupperl roll, d', overthe'roll'd on the postlua,

when desirable. I

le-isanother frictionfroll arranged in the' bottom rail, b", to'preventthe 'lower rail of the` lgate from sliding against thelower rail of the fence. b" and f are the frame-work -of the gate. 'g

are. its braces. l1. is a hook-latch, by which the gate is held together or closed. The upper rail of this gate is. made about once and ahalflong'er'than thc length ofthe gate,4 and .extends back bythe sideofthe'fence-rail. l

'i is a ,T-rai1 whichis secured to the top rail of the gate, the under track,-j, (for 'I propose-- `'to call the,T-rail.z','a double-track rail, j the .lower one, and Ja theupper ol1,) `runs "in the edge or grooves of fthe rolls d d, andthe up? per-track, k, runs in the grooves of the upper lroll d. lllow,'i`t"will readily he seen,l that in this arrangement 'I produce 'a very simple,

cheap, efficient, and durable gate, andV one that can easily beoperated by a child. Whatl claim, therefore, and desire to secure.'

' by Letters Patent, is

Making'the upp'er rail of a gate longer than the gate itself, in combination with-adoubletrack railiplatez' and rolls d, arranged and operating..substantiallyin the irianner'as de-4 scribed.

'i SYLVESTERe-FARNHAM l Witnesses: ALBERTB. GILLETT, v`JEREMY W. BLISS. 

